Please post a patch to current cvs(or 1.5.0). And either I or Rob Shortt will look at 
it.

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Michael Ruelle
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> 
> The recent release of XMame, 0.84.1 (17 Jul 2004) includes everything
> from MAME 0.84... and also removes --listinfo, which Freevo uses to
> generate the rom list.  The new approved method uses --listxml, which
> produces an XML tree of the ROM information.
> 
> I have changed mame_cache.py to switch based on the version of xmame
> (for version 83 and above it uses --listxml and a SAX parser, for
> versions below 83 it uses the original code).  The romlists produced
> are identical except for two things:
> 
> 1. The rom "buriki" was not being seen by the original code, which
>    saved a rom when a new one was seen.  The last rom in the list was
>    never saved, since a new rom was never seen.
> 
> 2. The description of the rom "alien3" shows up in the original code
>    as "Alien3: The Gun" but in the new XML code it shows up as
>    "Alien\xb3: The Gun" because the new --listxml format uses an
>    extended character to try and show a superscript.  I wanted to keep
>    the rom names in ASCII, so the ASCII conversion did its best (the
>    original string in --listxml is
>       <description>Alien&#179;: The Gun</description>
> 
> The code is working fine under my home install of Freevo and I would
> like to contribute it to the tree; the only file changed is
> mame_cache.py.
> 
> How can I contribute?
> 
> -->VPutz
> 

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